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Subject: Re: Qtorrent
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On January 17, 2005 06:45 pm, Warren wrote:
> > > Torrent trackers seem to change the versions of software they require
> > > rather frequently and the error messages are often somewhat obtuse.
> > > It may be that the qtorrent author hasn't caught up with recent
> > > changes.
> >
> > qtorrent is getting quite old and uses a stone-old snapshot of bittornado
> > as backend to boot. Chances are that qtorrent just doesn't work right
> > with python-2.4, in which case it's probably time to look for a different
> > client.
> >
> > This is btw offtopic on freebsd-current, please mail ports issues to
> > freebsd-ports (moved there).
>
> id gladly look at using something else, but i dont see any other torrent
> program that  has a GUI interface, but i could be wrong.

oo.  try azureus.  it's awesome and is in ports:

  /usr/ports/net/azureus

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